Running on Empty

3 at 7:30.

One hour strike class.

Cinderella man:

3 at 8:00

p.m. 3 at 8:40, 1% incline.

Skills.

p.m. 7 at 8:30, 1% incline.

Anyone interested in reducing your flesh in spots?  I'm putting in a plug for Walter's new business venture.

p.m. 7 at 8:35, .5% incline.  (Left soleus tendon still not where I would like it to be.)

2.75 at 6:55, .25at 5:40 all at -2% decline.

One hour barbell strength class.

Jackie Chan can sing:

and he has the right to sing because he did stuff like this:

7.25 at 8:30.

Now, for some fun literal videos, which redo the videos to make the song lyrics portray what is actually happening in the music video:

There are others, but these are some enjoyable ones.

9 at 8:30, .5% incline.

Worth adding baldnspicy's photo comment:

1.5 at 7:30.

One hour strike class.

2.  Need to return the new shoes I got Saturday as they have caused a serious blister on my left heel. 

No running because of blister.

One hour total conditioning class.

p.m. 20 minutes elliptical. 1 at 9:00 ff.

Exchanged my Mizuno Inspire 6s yesterday for another pair, hopefully no blisters this time. Also, Wasatch Running had a pair of vibram five fingers kso in my size (they didn't Saturday nor did anyone else I called) so I took it as an omen to go ahead and get some. 

Ran 2 at 8:30 in them, then did one hour Barbell Strength (got lots of strange looks from my frog feet).

Ran another 2 at 8:30, felt really nice.

In honor of the Olympics starting:

If you published a picture like that today, you'd probably get sued by the Olympic Committee for trademark infringement.

Really no reason for posting this other than the fact that P!nk is awesome:

Talking with Oprah about her workouts.

p.m. 30 minutes elliptical, 1 mile 8:40, vff, 10 minutes elliptical.

3.5 miles 8:40, .5 miles 7:00 (just to speed up a bit) all in VFF.  I know it has been a very easy running week, but hopefully it is helping my tendon.

6 easy, 8:40 in VFF.

1 mile 8:00.

One hour strike as well, no more running cause my toe got a blister in the VFF, which I am enjoying.

10 minutes elliptical, 1 at 8:40, 1 at 6:50, 1 at 6:40. Last two much harder than I would like but no tendinitis noted.

1.5 at 7:30

One hour total conditioning class.

35 minutes elliptical.

1 at 8:00, 1 at 7:00, VFF.

One hour barbell strength.

4 at 9, VFF.

 Dude went on to win the whole thing!

4 at 9:00 VFF,

20 minutes elliptical.

4 at 9:00, VFF. 

1 at 8:00

One hour strike class.

4 at 8:00, all VFF.

So Saturday I walk downstairs to see what's up with my five-year-old son.  He's all alone, singing and dancing making a video.  I didn't initially realize he was recording it on the computer, but here it is (he chose all the effects himself):

 I've already lost so much running-specific fitness by not being able to run as long or fast as I would like, so I finally am realizing that should swallow my pride and really make an effort to get it better.

Big nada.

30 minutes pool running.  Unfortunately, my pool does not have deep enough water to make this very worthwhile.  Oh, well, I tried.

1 hour total conditioning class.

50 minutes arc trainer.

One hour barbell strength class.

I hope to be strong enough to fight alien creatures like this some day.  Please don't be scared.

Awesomely lame!

UPDATE:  I've found a local pool that I can deep water run in.  I would like to borrow someone's pool running gear to give it a try.

20 minutes elliptical.

60 minutes upright bike.   (I really dislike biking, this is my sort of biking experience:)

Now, in honor of last week's lunch group, some additional tributes from Napoleon Dynamite.

In honor of Andy and his harem of women.

Kathie, may want to reconsider going back in time to when she wasn't a grandma:

The star of any show, Smooth:

And of course, this one is for Teena Marie.

15 minutes cycle, 20 minutes arc trainer, 15 minutes cycle.

Pretty simple.

60 minutes elliptical.

(Watching amazing race with the kids.)